In Rogues and Rascals Bob Kroll tells more than 200 true tales of our maritime ancestors, and introduces us to heroes, failures, and murderers who bring the everyday history of the Maritimes to vivid life. With tales from the 1700s...
Atlantic Canadian
The Nova Scotia government, in partnership with members of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, contributes titles in accessible formats to the NNELS repository, highlighting Atlantic Canadian authored and published books. The Atlantic Canadian collection includes a range of fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including adventure stories, mysteries, classics, ghost stories, general histories, tales of pirates, ghosts and rogues, and much more.
- Auteur:Kroll, Robert E.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Choyce, LesleySommaire:
This book celebrates the ordinary: the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life. In this, his one hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly everything under the sun from his home by the sea...
- Auteur:Scott, Shirley A., LeGrow, ChristineSommaire:
From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, Saltwater Classics will keep you toasty warm with beautiful hand-knitted hats, mitts, gloves, socks and vamps. As their follow-up to the best-selling Saltwater Mittens, Christine...
- Auteur:Glover, Douglas HSommaire:
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013, and a Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013, Longlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one...
- Auteur:Kroll, Robert E.Sommaire:
A miserly miller with a stash of gold, some sly smugglers who nevertheless remember to send a thank you note, a stern schoolmaster who couldn?t tell time, and a thief with two left feet are just some of the fascinating individuals who...
- Auteur:Cotter, CharisSommaire:
Adapted from family stories told across Newfoundland and passed down over generations, these 10 spine-tingling tales traverse centuries and introduce readers to nooks and the Island's nooks and crannies. This spooky collection...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Screening Justice in Canada is a scholarly exploration of films that focus centrally on crime and justice in Canada. Defining Canadian crime films as those that focus significantly on crime and its consequences in Canadian society, the...
- Auteur:Donovan, KevinSommaire:
It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post,...
- Auteur:Waddleton, TraceySommaire:
With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists... the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures of wall paint and tarot card predictions, to...
- Auteur:Kitz, Janet F.Sommaire:
This book, the most comprehensive ever written on the Explosion, details the terrific devastation, the aftermath and the restoration. It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs, and documents, along with some...
- Auteur:Crewe, LesleySommaire:
Elsie Brooks' banished husband lives in the basement, her only sister lives in the attic, her twenty-something daughters come and go and when the ninety-one-year-old archaeologist they all know as Aunt Hildry comes home to die, her poor...
- Auteur:Choyce, Lesley, Jones, BrendaSommaire:
Milton the washing machine and W. P. (Whirlpool) the dryer are being delivered to a new home in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. The pair are excited to start their new jobs in the Crosby home, and are just getting settled in to the basement...
- Auteur:Vernon, SteveSommaire:
The tiny community of Deeper Harbour is in trouble-and so is young Roland MacTavish. Roland's mom wants to move with him to Ottawa, away from his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and his even weirder grandfather. So Roland does what any...
- Auteur:MacLeod, HilarySommaire:
Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores - an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill...
- Auteur:Jenkins, Glenna LandriganSommaire:
In Somewhere I Belong, we meet young P.J. Kavanaugh at North Boston Station. His father has died, the Depression is on, and his mother is moving them back home. They settle in, and P.J. makes new friends. But the P.E.I. winter is harsh...
- Auteur:Bennet, JimSommaire:
In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader "down the bank" with him to adventures all over the city's...
- Auteur:Creelman, ElizabethSommaire:
In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. But sixteen-year-old identical twin sisters April and Pilgrim live happily on their parents' farm. Their father recruits a young Bahamian...
- Auteur:Fitch, ShereeSommaire:
Hello toes, our tootsie friends. Hello, summer feet again! Canada's Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking...
- Auteur:White, SusanSommaire:
A moving story of losing family but finding a new one. Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her. She's been shuttled from one rotten foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in...
- Auteur:Poliquin, DanielSommaire:
Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute in...